On Holidays

Survival is a major contributor to longevity. - Unknown

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. - Aung San Suu Kyi

See you later, alligator. After a while, crocodile. - Bill Haley

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. - Unknown

I wanted to be an atheist, but I gave up. They have no holidays. - Henny Youngman

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value. - Arthur C. Clarke

We'd show an Alzheimer's survivor here, if there were one. - Unknown

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. - Stephen Hawking

It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa. - Groucho Marx

I'm Southern, so alligator tail is pretty interesting and yummy. - LeAnn Rimes

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. - Dan Rather

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping that it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill

If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work. - William Shakespeare

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida. - Karen Russell

A gun is not a weapon, it’s a tool, like a hammer or a screwdriver or an alligator. - Homer Simpson

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly under-polluted. - Lawrence Summers

South Africa is the most beautiful country I have been to. Canada is also hugely underrated. - Honor Blackman

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. - Doug Larson

You know you're old when someone compliments you on your alligator shoes, and you're barefoot. - Phyllis Diller

I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh campers. - Erin O'Connor

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America? - Fidel Castro

If there be a God, I think that what he would like me to do is paint as much of the map of Africa British red as possible. - Cecil Rhodes

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. - WC Fields

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way? - Lara Flynn Boyle

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. - Nelson Mandela

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. - C S Lewis

I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. - W H Auden